Did anyone hear about the 90 year old woman in Ohio who was so afraid of losing her home that she tried to take her own life? It's true.

Apparently this woman had been served papers at least 30 times but had never answered the door. However, the mortgage company knew she was receiving the notices because they would be gone the next day. After months of trying to serve her, they finally decided to foreclose. When they arrived at her house, a neighbor heard a noise, climbed inside her window and found her lying on the bed with a long barrel revolver lying next to her. She was taken to the hospital where she is in critical condition.

After the attempted suicide, the Fannie Mae people decided to sign the house over to the woman. While it's a nice gesture, I'm sure, to me it seems a late one. A 90 year old woman, even in the best of health for that age, doesn't stand much of a chance of survival from a gunshot wound. Hopefully, this woman will prove me wrong, but if not, she will die without ever knowing that she can keep her home. And isn't it sad that she was so desperate and yet there was no help for her anywhere? Well, until she shot herself that is.

Is attempted suicide what it takes to make people sit up and realize how bad the economy has become, how afraid thousands of people are about losing their home and how desperate they may be to stop foreclosure from happening? I hope and pray that whether it's McCain or Obama who takes the office in 2009, that they can manage to erase the economic deficit Bush has managed to get this country into and that we will once again be a strong, economic nation. However, it won't be an easy thing for either of them to do. It will take some time. I just hope that most Americans can continue to survive until then.

Iman Morales and Lt. Michael Pigot

Is it just me or has anyone else noticed that the police seem to be using tasers more often than they used to? I'm not talking about during a very volatile situation in which it's life or death. I understand that police officers have to look out for themselves as well as the suspect and that they also have to make split second decisions. I understand that. What I don't understand is using tasers when they are not needed or too soon, as was this case. If the officers had waited until the inflatable cushion arrived, everything might have gone differently. Instead, not only is a civilian dead but an officer as well. The civilian because the police did not wait and the officer because he was so overwhelmed with guilt he felt it necessary to put a 9 mm Glock to his head and blow his brains out. Two tragedies that could have been avoided if only.....sigh. So very, very sad.

My heart goes out to not only these two men who lost their lives but the families they left behind.